Alice Dyke: The influential religion and society British think tank – Ekklesia – has announced it believes Christians and people of faith in Britain have a real opportunity to contribute to the public good and to defend the civic freedoms upon which we all rely.
Deliberately commenting ahead of the Convention on Modern Liberty, Ekklesia co-director Simon [...]
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Ekklesia: Convention embodies new kind of politics
The Economist considers the ‘ragtag gang’ and the price of freedom
Alice Dyke: The Economist has today released an article questioning whether civil liberties will be affordable in the recession.
The article wonders whether the Convention team – “The Ragtag Gang” – has chosen the best time to make a stand on British liberty. Weighing up the positive and negative effects the recession could have on [...]
Huffington Post: Convention Bringing freedom to Britain
Alice Dyke: The influential US-based political blog the Huffington Post has published a piece by Jamie Malanowski, the cynical writer and magazine editor, heralding the Convention on Modern Liberty as the opportunity to start a democratic movement in Britain.
The article gives a thorough outline of the Convention, including key speakers and a list of [...]
Gilligan: ‘Some things are worse than terrorism’
Alice Dyke: Andrew Gilligan has written an article in today’s evening standard warning of the danger of ‘Big Brother Britain’. Offering his support for the Convention, Andrew will be speaking during the Press Freedom session, something he feels keenly as linked to the ‘database state’. As he explains, ”if no communication is private, no confidential source [...]
Read →Phil Booth: Why I’m involved in the Convention on Modern Liberty.
Phil Booth is the National Coordinator of NO2ID,
When Anthony and Henry approached NO2ID last year to become involved in what has become the Convention on Modern Liberty, we – like many others – embraced the idea of a coming together of all those who cared about the attacks on our fundamental rights and freedoms.
It was [...]
Reclaiming what is ours
John Jackson: I have supported the CML in every way I could think of from the moment the idea was put to me. I sensed that it might – and I now believe it will – release a great flow of pent up, unexpressed energy flowing from a deep frustration on the part of most [...]
Read →Why get involved in the Convention on Modern Liberty?
Christina Zaba: For me it’s a no-brainer. As a mother of teenage children, a citizen of this country, a trade union activist, NO2ID staff member and a journalist, I care about the world I live in and I want it to be honest, fair and reasonable. I want the moral frame of reference which we [...]
Read →New Video: Phil Booth
We’ve just added the latest Convention video of Phil Booth, national coordinator of No2ID. Phil discusses the origin of the term ‘database state’, and the multiplicity of ways in which our movements are monitored in modern day UK. Phil encourages and offers ways in which people can resist the encroaching ’stalker state’.
Let us know what you think [...]
The tide begins to turn
In the run up to the Convention, we’re running a series of short blogs from each member of the Convention team. This one is by Matt Brian who has responsibility for producing the CML Briefings.
Matt Brian: The election of Barack Obama last November really brought home to me the problems we have here in Britain. [...]
‘Practical things to do and bring to the Convention’
Alice Dyke: Spyblog has suggested a list of useful things that those attending the Convention should bring with them on the day, alongside ‘an open mind‘. They are proposing a ‘Modern Liberty Swap Shop’, where those attending physically swap or sell certain items holding personally identifiable information with people they might meet at the event.
By swapping [...]
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